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Axios Latino: The Hispanic Pay Gap and Other Things You Should Know About

2021-12-14T19:34:48.943Z


The economy loses billions from the disparity. It's time to sign up for health insurance. Caricatures to promote vaccination. Read the newsletter with the stories with the greatest impact on the Latino communities of the hemisphere.


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1 Topic: Latinos Wanted to Enroll in Health Insurance

Hispanic civil rights groups drive

bilingual

campaigns

to get as many eligible people as possible to sign up for health insurance before the end of the year.

Why it matters

: Latinos are one of the least insured communities in the country, whether with public plans like Medicaid or private plans through employers.

  • This leaves them especially exposed when they need hospitalization, preventive services, treatment for physical and mental ailments, or in cases of pregnancy and childbirth.

  • Historically, Latinos who are primarily Spanish-speaking fare much worse, using health services up to 42% less than non-Hispanic adults who are fluent in English.

What's Happening

: A UnidosUS group campaign is making announcements to explain the enrollment process before it closes on January 15th.

Between the lines

: Uninsured Latino rates have been stable since 2018 - One in four Hispanics has no health insurance coverage, Census data shows.

  • Experts attribute the underinsured in recent years to lingering fears of now-defunct policies of the Trump era, such as the public charge rule that prevented immigrants using health benefits or housing subsidies from obtaining residency or housing. citizenship.

Reasons to enroll in a health plan in the era of COVID-19

Nov. 16, 202005: 43

The detail

: During the pandemic, lack of insurance has been identified as a key obstacle that often prevents Latinos from getting tested for COVID or getting treatment on time.

  • Those with lower English proficiency have frequently faced more significant barriers to COVID-19-related care and vaccines, according to studies.

  • Hispanics are among the population groups most affected by coronavirus infections and deaths, according to the CDC.

For your reference

: Open enrollment is the annual period in which people in the United States can enroll in, renew, adjust, or cancel an insurance plan.

  • Those interested in having health care coverage starting January 1 should sign up no later than tomorrow.

  • If you enroll before January 15, your coverage would begin on February 1.

2. Underpaying Hispanics slows US economic growth

Sarah Grillo / Axios

The wage gap for Latinos in the United States is

$ 288 billion compared to non-Hispanic whites, a disparity that hurts business growth and job creation, according to an analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Why It Matters

: The report adds to warnings about financial inequality Latinos face and the potential long-term effects for the entire United States if left unaddressed.

In numbers

: Lower income, less wealth and reduced access to goods and services translate into $ 660 billion not incorporated into the economy, according to the study.

  • The disparities also mean that Latino-owned businesses cannot generate what McKinsey estimates could be $ 2 trillion more in annual revenue and up to 6.6 million new jobs.

  • Barriers to wealth generation also result in a $ 380 billion gap between Latinos and non-Hispanic whites when it comes to inheriting money, perpetuating disparities.

Important note

: Inequalities are present even among college-educated Latinos, although that income gap is smaller than the one that divides less-educated Latinos and non-Hispanic whites.

In his own words

: “This report is a call to action.

How are we going to invest in this community and what do we need to really see it as America's economic engine? "

Lucy Pérez, one of the report's authors, told Axios Latino.

  • Pérez said the figures show Hispanics are starting businesses at a faster rate than other groups.

    However, they are disproportionately reliant on personal funds and credit cards to start those businesses, making debt a looming problem.

  • That underinvestment occurs even though Latino entrepreneurs were responsible for roughly 50% of the net growth of new small businesses in the US from 2007 to 2017.

3. Fatal accidents increase as migrant smuggling continues

The driver of the truck that crashed in Chiapas that left 55 dead remains unaccounted for

Dec. 12, 202101: 29

The United States, Mexico and five other countries formed a

task force

to combat coyotes who use crowded vehicles to transport immigrants by road.

Why it matters

: The group was created on Friday after more than 50 migrants died and a hundred were injured when the truck they were traveling in overturned in Chiapas.

  • Many of the deceased have not been identified.

    Most were indigenous Guatemalans, although Dominicans, Salvadorans, Ecuadorians and Nicaraguans also traveled in the truck, according to authorities.

  • A record number of people lost their lives last year on the migration route through Mexico to the United States and at the border, according to data from the Border Patrol and the UN's International Organization for Migration.

The Big Picture

: The Chiapas accident exemplifies how coyotes have become more brazen in their attempts to cross migrants in recent years, as the migration continues.

  • Human traffickers and smugglers put more people in vehicles to reduce the number of trips, and drive unsafe to evade authorities, activists warn.

  • Demanding documents from bus passengers, prohibiting getting on trains or blocking the passage of caravans on the roads "does not stop migration, it only means that these families are trying to find increasingly dangerous alternatives," says César Ríos, from the Salvadoran Migrant Institute. .

  • In March, 13 passengers in a pickup truck were killed when the vehicle crashed on a highway near the Mexican border on the way to San Diego.

    Authorities investigated this accident, one of the deadliest in the border region, as a probable human trafficking operation.

  • Ten more people lost their lives in a similar accident in early August in Texas.

4. Armed with a pencil against misinformation

One of the cartoons to promote vaccination against the coronavirus shows the benefits as if they were lottery cards.Courtesy of Lalo Alcaraz

Latino cartoonists are using cartoons

to combat coronavirus-related misinformation affecting Hispanic communities.

Why It Matters

: The

COVID Latino

Project

aims to disseminate truthful information among US Latinos, through artistic publications and on social media.

  • The health campaign was launched by academic Gilberto López, who recruited Chicano artist Lalo Alcaraz to produce illustrations for the project.

Between the lines

: Latinos are nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID than non-Hispanic whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • They are also more frequently exposed to misinformation related to the vaccine and COVID, according to reports. 

  • Identifying fake content platforms and social networks takes longer when in Spanish or

    Spanglish

    , since only 13% of spending against disinformation used to content in languages other than English, according to extrabajadora Facebook back informer Frances Haugen .

In his own words

:

Cartoons are a great way to show a lot of information at once.

It is an image that can stay with you ”.

Lalo Alcaraz, cartoonist

5.

Summary of key news in Latin America and the Caribbean

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori

faces new charges for human rights violations: a judge ruled on Saturday that criminal complaints against him may proceed in a case of forced sterilizations.

  • The decision comes 12 years after women affected by Fujimori's “family planning” campaign first filed charges.

    The case and its preliminary hearings had been postponed several times.

  • Up to 236,000 women, mostly indigenous, were brought in for hysterectomies without being told what they were for, according to the case file.

    The trial focuses on just 1,300 victims of forced sterilization.

  • Fujimori is already serving a 25-year sentence for human rights crimes, charged with overseeing kidnappings and killings of civilians in the 1990s.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will have to answer for forced sterilizations during his mandate

Dec. 12, 202100: 36

The Chilean presidential campaign,

disputed between extremes, has heated up days before the vote on December 19.

There have been reports that candidate José Antonio Kast's father was a member of the Nazi party (Kast said his father was forcibly recruited into Hitler's armed forces, but membership in the party was never mandatory).

On the other hand, allegations have come to light that the other candidate, Gabriel Boric, committed misogynistic acts years ago.

  • Chile was one of the havens in Latin America for Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust, although former Gestapo and SS soldiers also hid there after World War II.

  • The ultra-conservative Kast, whose family also has ties to the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1974-1990), won the most votes in the first round.

    But he appears behind far-left candidate Gabriel Boric in recent polls.

  • Meanwhile, the claims against Boric (who made sexist remarks against his colleagues when he was a student leader in 2012) surfaced this weekend.

    Boric apologized Monday.

6. ✨ Farewell smile: Festive flowers

As the December festivities bloom

, so does the work of Mexican

poinsettia

growers

in the floating gardens of Xochimilco.

This is how poinsettias, the traditional red Christmas flowers from Mexico, are grown

Dec. 9, 202102: 36

Context

: Christmas Eve, as plants are known in Mexico for their bloom around Christmas Eve, have graced Mexican gardens since the 15th century.

Back then, the flower signified rebirth after a battle for the Aztecs.

  • They were adopted by Spanish settlers for use in nativity scenes and Nativity scenes, making ponsetias common in New Year's Eve Christmas decorations.

The intrigue

: Studies show that the flower is native to Morelos and Guerrero, but Mexican growers have to pay commercial royalties to people in the US for most varieties.

  • The cultivation rights (trademarks of the plant) belong to US growers.

    Some years after that country's first ambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett, discovered Christmas Eve and sent seeds home, the American Paul Ecke is the one who registered the flower.

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